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I meant to post this when it happened, but oh well...

So two Friday's ago...Friday the 13th...was a grand day in the dork universe.

Some background info first:

Unix time was created to keep time in Unix based computer operating systems (it's used for other time keeping as well). It is calculated using seconds, and it was created on January 1, 1970.

So...that brings us to February 13, 2009 23:31:30 (UTC) time - which was 6:31 pm and 30 seconds Eastern Time. For that one second, Unix time was equal to 1234567890. Which means we were 1,234,567,890 seconds into Unix time. (Now, it wasn't exactly 1234567890 seconds. There's such a thing as "leap seconds" and some other factors that I don't fully understand, which actually change what the exact time is. The day and time of February 13, 2009 does not include all of these variables. It only counted seconds as common people talk about time, ya know?)

Anyways...apparently there were fabulous dork parties around the world. Now, to increase my dork IQ, I figured out when my 1234567890 seconds birthday would be. With all times being
Eastern Standard Time (EST), and assuming I was born at 1:30 am , I will be 1234567890 seconds old on November 9, 2020 at 1:01:30 am. Yay! I can't wait! Just remember when all of you youngins' out there turn 39, that a little more than a month later you will be 1234567890 seconds old too!

Just for kicks, on June 4, 2013 at 3:16:40 am, I will be a nice, round, 1 billion seconds old. Now if only I would have figured out how to make a penny a second; I would have a cool $10 million when I turn 1 billion seconds old, haha.

If you feel like figuring out your dork birthday(s) too, just let me know. I have a spreadsheet that will do the math for you :)